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Microsoft kicks off TechEd 2009 with focus on management

By David Worthington

May 11, 2009 —

Microsoft is plugging away at making Windows more manageable, completing Office 2010, and on making application virtualization as seamless as possible.

Windows business senior vice president Bill Veghte opened TechEd 2009 here by thanking the show’s 7,000 attendees for coming during “lean [economic] times.”

He announced that Microsoft will deliver a technical preview of SQL Server 2008 R2 in the second half of the year. Additionally, new support for Complex Events Processing (CEP) would be added to SQL Server some time in the second half of the year, though it will not be included in the SQL Server 2008 preview. The SQL and Microsoft Office Teams are working in unison to add business intelligence to Office client applications, he added.

Microsoft is using R2 in production for the MSN ad center, processing 500 million events per day, he revealed.

Microsoft technical fellow Mark Russinovich confirmed reports that Windows 7 is on schedule to ship before the holidays, but a source at Microsoft told SD Times that the date could slip to January, mirroring the Windows Vista launch, should anti-trust action be taken against the company by the European Commission.

Russinovich also showed off some of Windows 7’s new data management capabilities that can deny access to removable storage devices such as USB keys. He highlighted Windows 7 AppLocker, an application security management feature that he called Software Restriction Policies “on steroids.” AppLocker-applied policies do not break when an application is updated to a new version, he noted.

Russinovich showcased Windows XP mode, an integration technology that virtualizes Windows XP applications. Virtualized Windows XP applications run from the Windows 7 start menu and behave as if they were native Windows 7 applications, so end users do not need to be trained about virtualization, he explained.

While XP mode targets small businesses with limited numbers of users; Microsoft offers Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization and Microsoft Application Virtualization for enterprise customers. App-V was formerly known as SoftGrid.

Iain McDonald, director of product management for Windows Server, discussed how Windows Server 2008 R2 has reliability and security features that are designed to work with Windows 7. R2 will ship in the same time frame as Windows 7.

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Ballmer announces Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 betas Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used the CES 2009 spotlight to announce the availability of betas for the upcoming version of Windows. Preview versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have been distributed to testers, with general availability coming tomorrow.

Microsoft readies small business and mid-market server offerings Microsoft's Essentials series of Windows Server products will become available in November, bringing with it a price increase for Small Business Server, as well as a new mid-market product.

IBM, Microsoft voted best app servers in Evans Data survey In a survey of over 700 developers, WebSphere won out overall, beating Adobe, Apache and Microsoft. Oracle's WebLogic dropped the most places, while SAP's came in last due to incompatibility with non-SAP software.

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